Safety Precautions

Safety Precautions

NOTE: CHEMICALS ON THIS WEBSITE ARE LABORATORY ITEMS ONLY FOR USE BY SKILLED PEOPLE OR UNDER THEIR DIRECT
SUPERVISION. ACCEPTANCE AND USE OF THESE ITEMS SO CERTIFIES.

Chemical Based Products

DO

Safety

  • Wear safety glasses.
  • Wear rubber gloves if skin contact is possible.
  • Have clean water on tap to wash any spilled chemicals off skin.
  • Wash your hands after using heavy liquids.
  • Use with good air ventilation under a fume hood.
  • Observe good laboratory practice and normal precautions.

Heavy Liquid Separations

  • Use only plastic or glass containers and implements.
  • Use only benzyl benzoate to adjust the density of heavy liquid.
  • Use only benzyl benzoate to wash minerals after separation.
  • Check the density of your heavy liquids before using.
  • Clean or deslime minerals before separation with Methylene
  • Iodide, Bromoform or Acetylene Tetrabromide heavy liquid.
  • You can recycle/reclaim chemical based heavy liquids.
  • Contact a disposal service, do not pour down the drain.

DO NOT

Safety

  • Do not ingest heavy liquids.
  • Do not smoke or eat where heavy liquids are used.
  • Do not allow any heavy liquids to contact eyes.
  • Do not allow regular skin contact with heavy liquids.
  • Do not continue to wear clothing contaminated with heavy liquids.

Heavy Liquid Separations

  • Do not use metal containers, spatulas or other metal implements.
  • Do not allow heavy liquid to come in contact with alkaline materials.
  • Do not use wet mineral samples, or samples with a high slime content.
  • Do not allow heavy liquids to evaporate, unless the density is rechecked.
  • Do not discard heavy liquids into the environment.

Water Based Products

DO

Safety

  • Wear safety glasses.
  • Wear rubber gloves if skin contact is possible.
  • Have clean water on tap to wash any spilled SPT/LST off skin.
  • Wash your hands after using SPT/LST heavy liquid.
  • Observe good laboratory practice and normal precautions.

Heavy Liquid Separations

  • Use only plastic or glass containers and implements.
  • Use only deionized or distilled water to adjust SPT/LST heavy liquid.
  • Use only deionized or distilled water to wash minerals after separation.
  • Check the density of SPT/LST heavy liquid before using.
  • Clean or deslime minerals before separation with SPT/LST heavy liquid.
  • Keep laboratory temperatures above 20° C to prevent SPT/LST crystallization.
  • Recycle SPT/LST heavy liquid.

DO NOT

Safety

  • Do not ingest SPT/LST heavy liquid.
  • Do not smoke or eat where SPT/LST heavy liquid is used.
  • Do not allow any SPT/LST heavy liquid to contact eyes.
  • Do not allow regular skin contact with SPT/LST heavy liquid.
  • Do not continue to wear clothing contaminated with SPT/LST heavy liquid.

Heavy Liquid Separations

  • Do not use metal containers, spatulas or other metal implements.
  • Do not use saline or contaminated water to prepare SPT/LST heavy liquid.
  • Do not use saline or contaminated water for washing mineral samples.
  • Do not mix SPT/LST heavy liquid with other chemicals or different heavy liquids.
  • Do not allow SPT/LST heavy liquid to come into contact with alkaline materials.
  • Do not use wet mineral samples, or samples with a high slime content.
  • Do not allow SPT/LST heavy liquid to evaporate, unless the density is rechecked.
  • Do not chill SPT/LST heavy liquid below 20° C. This may cause crystallization.
  • Do not discard SPT/LST heavy liquids into the environment.